Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarship enabling a member of the Circolo Italiano who must also be a worthy student, to study and carry on research in an Italian university, during the academic year of 1928-1929, has been offered by the Circolo Italiano...
Professor Coolidge's death reminds one that it is not always the most popular man who contributes most heavily to the cause to which he is sworn. Of Professor Coolidge's devotion to scholarship, and of his service to that cause there can be no question. Among Harvard's many scholars he yielded to none in the standards which he set for himself and which he attained...
Professor Coolidge, while he lived had no nickname, had no societies named after him, had no fan mail. He cared not for these-scholarship, his lecutres, his books, his missions, his duties as an editor and as director of the Widener Library, were enough. In them he had his life. In them he has his monument, more permanent than life...
Professor J. B. Munn '12, a member of the faculty of New York University, and prominent in library affairs paid the following tribute: "By his wide scholarship and remarkable executive ability Professor Coolidge secured for the Harvard Library not merely preeminence among American University libraries but the respect and admiration of scholars and libraries throughout the world...
Last week, following his annual custom, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, announced the election of 32 Rhodes Scholars from 32 states. The scholars elected were given proper publicity in their college newspapers, where, in most cases, their names had appeared before. Each one was, by definition, a male citizen of the U. S., over 19 and under 25 years old, above sophomore standing in some recognized, degree-granting U. S. college or university. In addition each had been chosen to go to Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose...